2020 January Preston Hollow

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GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY

EIGHT HOCKADAY SENIORS signed commitments to play sports in college this fall. The Hockaday School will hold its signing celebration Feb. 20.

n NOELLE DIAMOND, Stanford University for rowing

n ALEXANDRA HART, Southern Methodist University for rowing

n EVAN JOHNSTON, Syracuse University for lacrosse

n ALYSSA MANGANELLO, Southern Methodist University for rowing

n LEILAH SMITH, Stanford University for volleyball

n MADISON STRINGFIELD, Rhodes College for softball

n ABBY TCHOUKALEFF, Providence College for swimming

n MARGARET WOODBERRY, Brown University for lacrosse

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Walnut Hill Elementary was severely damaged in the tornado, but DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said the district will try to salvage what it can. The site has some “good bones” in the façade.

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FIERCE FEMALE UPDATE: ELIZABETH LINDBERG

The founder, owner and trainer of Studio 6 Fitness was so moved by clients affected by the Oct. 20 tornado that she gave them private lessons to help them “feel strong and take care of themselves.” In addition, the boys and coaches on the Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas tennis team have done pilates there every Wednesday at 7 a.m. for the last three years to stretch, cross train and improve their strength.

DINING NEWS

n Two Preston Hollow restaurants made TripAdvisor’s list of Dallas’ 50 highest-rated restaurants: Hillstone, at 8300A Preston Road, was ranked No. 31, and Meso Maya, at 11900 Preston Road, Suite 1426, came in at No. 40.

n Mesero opened a new location in Preston Hollow Village, 7775 Firefall Way, Suite 100. The menu includes brisket, carne asada, chicken paillard, shrimp ceviche and more.

n HQ Prime Beer Garden in The Hill Shopping Center closed.

n Blue Sushi Sake Grill now offers a new line of vegan sushi. 7859 Walnut Hill Lane, Suite 180.

WE CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT

THE TORNADO. Here are just a few of the headlines:

n Parts of Preston Oaks shopping center, located on the southeast corner of Preston Road and Royal Lane, were demolished. The section that housed Fish City Grill, Marco’s Pizza, Sample House, Interabang Books, Talbots, the Gap, Celebrity Cafe, The Gents Place, Francesca’s and others came down,

n Brant Landry formed a group of residents to buy trees to replace the many trees that were lost in the tornado. If you want to help, email brant@ landrycommercial.com or call 972.839.1529.

n North Haven Gardens reopened Nov. 25.

n Interabang Books opened at a new location, 5600 West Lovers Lane, Suite 142.

n The Toy Maven moved to a temporary space at 6060 Forest Lane.

n The family that owns Lucy’s Tailor and Preston Royal Cleaners had to consolidate operations into one shop.

n Read more coverage on pages 10, 19 and 28.

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Check out this photo of Burning Rice, which is like a Korean Chipotle, by Kathy Tran on Instagram, @prestonhollowadvocate. Be sure to like and follow!

CELEB ROUNDUP

City Council member JENNIFER STAUBACH GATES tweeted a photo of dad Roger Staubach in uniform and herself as a child. Staubach graduated from the Naval Academy in 1965 and served four years of active duty in the Navy, with one year overseas duty in Vietnam. Staubach led the Dallas Cowboys to two Super Bowl victories in his 11 years with the

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MARK CUBAN is a vegetarian? On an episode of “Shark Tank,” he became passionate about vegan corned beef. Cuban and Jenny Goldfarb bonded over her Unreal Deli corned beef sandwich. “I love it,” he said. “I went vegetarian. I’ll make you an offer. I’ll give you $250,000 for 20%. I’ll be on the front page of it. I’ll be the poster child for it. We’ll hustle. I don’t mess around.”

Billionaire KELCY WARREN bought more than $45 million of shares in his pipeline company Energy Transfer, according to the Dallas Morning News. Previously, the company’s stock had fallen to a low of $11.18 a share.

Hockaday alumna, in defense of her father George W. Bush’s friendship with Ellen DeGeneres. The relationship became controversial when the two sat together at a Dallas Cowboys game.

Jesuit grad and golf pro JORDAN SPIETH hosted the 2019 Spieth & Friends event with Jake Owen. The Jordan Spieth Family Foundation raises funds and awareness for its four mission pillars: youth with special needs, junior golf, military families and pediatric cancer.

I want my kids to realize that we live in a world where people think different things, and we treat everybody with respect and kindness. Just like Ellen, my dad does that. Plenty of the people that worked for him have different opinions or different lifestyles... He’s open.

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UP FRONT

‘WE LOST OUR BUILDING, BUT WE DIDN’T LOSE OUR SCHOOL’

How Walnut Hill Elementary principal Phillip Potter led his community through crisis 

Interview by LISA KRESL | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

When the Oct. 20 twister totaled Walnut Hill Elementary on a Sunday night, principal Phillip Potter was one of the Dallas ISD leaders that stormed onto the scene. Thirtysix hours later, about 390 students and 50 staff members started school across town at the previously empty Tom Field Elementary. Now the students have created a gratitude wall and are focused on lessons. Potter became principal of Walnut Hill Elementary, which originally started in 1914, in January 2019. He received his master’s degree at DePaul University in Chicago, started his career in the Chicago public schools and came to Dallas ISD in 2013. Potter also has a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of North Texas. He’s currently working on a doctorate at Southern Methodist University. Potter and his wife have a 2-year-old, Grace, and Evan, who is a kindergartner at Walnut Hill.

Where were you during the night of the tornado?

We had just had a date night, watching the Cowboys lose. The news report flashed, saying, “Tornado in the area. Take cover.” I became concerned about kids, parents and families in the area. And then a channel reported that a tornado had touched down at Walnut Hill and Midway. I thought, “That’s not good. Maybe at worst there will be a broken window, some destroyed shingles. Maybe the power will be out.”

What did you do next?

I was in contact with people in the district and in school leadership — my supervisor, Ms. Angie Torres, who is an awesome leader, and Elena Bates, the principal at W.T. White, who is a great friend and person. Her husband, Dave Bates, is our executive director of maintenance and operations. I called Central Control, our Dallas ISD police, and asked for updates. Central Control called back and said, “Someone saw your school from the road. It’s not good.” At that point, in collaboration with school leadership and our district leaders, it became a sprint to plan the next day, figure out how to talk to staff and make a decision about how much we would allow this to define us.

What’s the first decision you made as a leader?

We’re not going to let this define us. As long as people are OK, we can figure it out. My tagline became, “We lost our building, but we didn’t lose our school.” We love the history of our building and the community. They’re very special, but the school is the people and the culture.

How quickly did you and the leaders get the students and staff here to Tom Field Elementary?

About 36 hours after the tornado. Tom Field was completely empty. We started mapping out where everyone would be placed, had our staff meeting, set the tone and talked about our resolve to stick together. And then on that Tuesday, it was incredible. It’s hard to imagine the organization efforts that went into that.

What were the challenges?

T he commute and the changes were an adjustment. At first, we had some staff members say, “Commuting took me a long time.” You just adjust. We’ve taken our culture and our routines and put them in a different building. When the students got out of the cars, they were still smiling. They were happy to be back.

What did you tell the kids and staff on the first day?

“Welcome to Walnut Hill, welcome home.” We’re going to be Walnut Hill whether we’re here at I-35 and Royal or over on Midway. We are settling into a temporary home and bringing our signature — our student work, high standards and cultural diversity.

What kind of personal toll has this taken on you? The support was so overwhelming immediately. I knew we were going to be fine. It was a blessing it didn’t happen during the school day and that we didn’t lose anyone. It’s an opportunity to move forward stronger.

What are your goals going forward?

The school just received its second National Blue Ribbon. I want a world-class education here. We want to continue that path toward national recognition. We have a dual language, talented and gifted and two-way dual language program. We want people to choose our school.

A lot of neighbors want to know how to help.

I sug gest everyone go through DISD Partnership and Volunteer Services at dallasisd.org/tornadorelief. The larger donations are managed by the Dallas Education Foundation. The response from our community, United to Learn, our partners and parents has been incredible. We have school supplies, and the technology is coming [as of November]. We want to work with our leadership to be good stewards of the money and spend it on the right things at the right time. We need to think about the long term.

“We’re not going to let this define us. As long as people are OK, we can figure it out.”

WALK THE WALK

Sam Williamson attempted to walk 100 miles around White Rock Lake to raise awareness and money for first responders

Story by MARISSA ALVARADO | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

NOT MANY 52-YEAR-OLDS

voluntarily agree to walk 100 consecutive miles to raise money for charity, but this mission hit close to home for Sam Williamson.

Days before Williamson attempted the “Walk the Walk 100” to raise $100,000, his home was damaged in the tornado that hit North Dallas on Oct. 20. His house’s windows were broken, and the roof was blown off.

“That’s why I was so committed because within minutes, the first responders were there for a week around our house protecting us,” he says. “I was really reignited and fired up to go do this thing in their support and their honor.”

In the weeks leading up to the event, Williamson says it was important to suppress doubt and continue training.

“I had logged over 500 miles, but my longest one-time walk was only a few weeks before, and it was five and a half hours of just nonstop at 20 miles,” Williamson says. “I thought at that point, ‘I have to do this five more times. What have I got myself into?’”

As a professional actor appearing on episodes of “Walker, Texas Ranger” and providing voiceovers in national and regional commercials for companies like Taco Bell, Wingstop and TXU Energy, he had no previous athletic training.

Williamson started the walk at 5 a.m. on Oct. 26, a nasty morning at White Rock Lake with cold winds, mist and rain. After completing a few laps, people started dropping in to keep him company.

One by one, veterans and civilians would pop over the hill and strike conversation. One man, who had lost both feet in the Army, ran a charity called Rebuilding Warriors to provide service dogs for veterans. Williamson’s wife, Molly, joined for 30 miles without any prior training.

When night fell, the walk started to get strange. The fog rolled in and Williamson began seeing things that weren’t there.

“I said, ‘Well that’s funny. The last time we lapped this thing they were having a party here, but they left this big blow-up dinosaur, that’s crazy. I don’t remember seeing that.’” And his walking companion said, “That’s the light in the trees, that’s the reflection going on.” Williamson laughed and said, “I guess this is what sleep deprivation feels like.”

At this point, Williamson was fatigued, sleep deprived and lacking nutrition. Around 21 hours in, veteran and fellow Bird’s Eye View member Brendan Weimholt joined his run.

“I stopped for a second to get rehydrated, I couldn’t keep fluids down and I kind of passed out,” Williamson says.

Weimholt called paramedics to take Williamson to the hospital where he was diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis; his muscle proteins had started breaking down and his kidneys couldn’t process it. Along with that, his knee had flared up and he had contracted a sinus infection and cold.

“If I had kept going the doctor said, ‘You may have made it another lap, but you would have ended up back here. If you had made it the next 40 there’s a risk of you being on dialysis the rest of your life.’”

Williamson had completed 60 miles and raised $30,000. A few weeks later, he was persistent to finish his mission.

“We all met two weeks later, back at the same place, sacred ground, T&P Hill where I went down, and 30 or 40 people showed up, complete strangers, family, team members,” he says.

They continued to walk a lap around White Rock Lake, racking Williamson’s total to 70 miles. He plans to add up his miles and finish the 100 he committed to.

“My why is truly, to be an example to show that an average citizen can make a difference and you don’t have to go to that extreme, but sometimes you do to get other people to do something in a small way.”

“If you had made it the next 40, there’s a risk of you being on dialysis the rest of your life.”

BOBCAT BENEFACTOR

MEET A NEIGHBOR WHO GREW UP WITH A BOBCAT AS A PET AND IS NOW PASSIONATE ABOUT THE WILDLIFE IN OUR OASIS

WE’VE SEEN BOBCATS in our neighborhood, hanging out on the roof, chilling in our backyard and caught on Ring Doorbell. Some worry we are overrun, but Dr. Mary Ellen Bluntzer, an internist who has lived in Preston Hollow for 20 years, is wild about bobcats and says you are lucky to see them. A fifth-generation Texan, Bluntzer grew up with a pet bobcat. She is the daughter of a veterinarian and an artist and enjoyed playing Tarzan as a child. Passionate about Tanzania (she’s been there three times), she also has rescued squirrels for the last 35 years. Bluntzer is now on the board of Crosstimbers Bobcat Research and Rescue in Terrell, which houses 20 to 30 bobcats.

Why she’s so passionate about bobcats: Back then there were no rehabbers. There were vets’ kids. That’s what we did. People would bring my dad wildlife, and he would bring them home and teach us what to do, and we’d raise them. In Corpus Christi, an area was bulldozed and workers came across a bobcat and a nest of babies. We know now that they should have left it there. My dad kept one, brought it home and went back to work. He said by the time he got back, the cat was bonding with me. He was forever upset about that. I was the only one who could pet her. She would sleep by my head on the bed. She had the run of the house. I didn’t appreciate until now how deeply that formed my regard, respect and intuitive understanding of how nature operates.

What happens when you try to make a bobcat a pet: What people don’t understand about wildlife is that there’s a sweet, gentle place in them, but it’s hard to find because they’re putting their lives on the line. People think they can make bobcats pets. Neighbors get them in their house as kittens and then the bobcats get big and people say, “Oh, no. This won’t work. It’s too big. It eats too much. I have kids.”

On finding sanctuary: The bobcats have been abandoned. Otherwise, it would be euthanasia. You can’t release them because they’re imprinted on humans. They won’t run away. With these Preston Hollow sightings, the fact that the bobcats are scared is perfect. We don’t want them to be tame.

BETTER KNOW A NEIGHBOR

Dr. Mary Ellen Bluntzer: “The bobcat’s fundamental reaction is fear.”

Interview by LISA KRESL | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

Why you shouldn’t be afraid when you see a bobcat on your property: Bobcats don’t mess with human beings. When I lived in San Antonio, one of the herpetologists at the zoo was bitten by a venomous snake. It was a big thing on television. They found the anti-venom. They saved him. They decided to interview him. They asked, “Did you kill the snake?” The man was horrified. He said, “No. I was the problem. The snake was just being a snake.” The bobcat is just being a bobcat.

Why bobcats love our neighborhood: T he bobcat’s fundamental reaction is fear. There is so much food here — rats, squirrels and rabbits. We have places where they can hide — culverts, ditches and parks. We have dogs, but we fence them in. We send the bobcats an engraved invitation.

What to do if you see a bobcat in our neighborhood: Enjoy it. In all my life, I’ve never seen a bobcat in the wild. I’m jealous. Let your curiosity be aroused. You’re not in any danger.

If you’re interested in contributing to the Crosstimbers Bobcat Research and Rescue in Terrell, email bchispa@aol. com.

“In all my life, I’ve never seen a bobcat in the wild. I’m jealous. Let your curiosity be aroused.”

CLUCK PLAY

MARCO STREET RULES THE ROOST AT STREET’S FINE CHICKEN

MARCO STREET, the proprietor of Street’s Fine Chicken, calls the restaurant’s Peri Peri chicken “sin-killing good.”

“It burns whatever ails you,” he says about the Portuguese-style marinated dish. “It burns your mistakes right out of you.”

Street, who is the son of Dallas restaurateur Gene Street, grew up on Bubba’s and big fluffy biscuits, so it’s natural that he has a passion for poulet. He calls his menu a glorification of chicken. People flock to the scene for three main recipes: the Peri Peri, the bone-in fried and the traditional French roasted chicken,

Street’s Fine Chicken 5211 Forest Lane, Suite108

Hours: Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.- 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Phone: 972.803.5181 Streetsfinechicken.com

made with herbs de Provence, brown sugar, salt, pepper and lemon juice. The meat, which comes from small birds raised in Nixon, Texas, near San Antonio, is free of antibiotics and added hormones. Every piece of the poultry is brined in salt water and a little sugar. Tenders and fried chicken are the most popular items, Street says, but he likes the roasted recipe so much that he eats it every day.

Other items include the “Sin Killer Thigh Sandwich” with havarti, arugula and escabeche onions, a Nashville-style hot thigh sandwich, chicken potpie and

Story by LISA KRESL | Photography by KATHY TRAN

Owner Marco Street says his restaurant is “the glorification of chicken.”

DID YOU KNOW?

Owner Marco Street graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and played music in Austin after graduation. He has nine guitars and a piano in his home, where he plays for infant daughter, Golden.

chicken fried chicken. The “smoked chicken lollipops” are smoked drumsticks fried with Grand Marnier horseradish molasses sauce. You can also indulge in the wings or chicken and dumplings.

Bourbon sriracha glazed meatloaf, shrimp and grits and salads round out the menu. Sample such sides as whipped potatoes, black eyed peas, collard greens and brie mac and cheese. The restaurant serves beer and wine on tap.

Street grew up in the restaurant business, making sour cream and cheese enchilada plates for Tex-Mex dishes as a kid, busing tables and then waiting on customers throughout high school at Cantina Laredo, Spaghetti Warehouse and Good Eats.

“The heart and soul of any restaurant is meeting people and forming relationships with them,” he says.

Street’s decor is a gallery of chicken art, including abstract paintings by Salado artist Lonnie Edwards. Edwards, the author of “The Claw Can Draw,” places a paint-covered canvas down and lets chickens roam over it. Think of their feet as paintbrushes.

Unlike the Cedar Springs Road location, the restaurant on Forest Lane caters to families. The service allows you to get in and out a bit faster, Street says.

Four of the six Street siblings are in the restaurant business. Dad Gene Street offers advice. “He loves watching us,” Street says. “He says, ‘Don’t worry about the extremely competitive dining scene that is Dallas. Focus on what you do well and serve your neighborhood.’”

Fried, roasted and Peri Peri chicken are the menu’s stars. Sides include biscuits, collard greens and more.

“Focus on what you do well and serve your neighborhood.”

Whatever happened to...?

From catastrophic weather and triumphant recovery to teenage wunderkinds, the fiercest female and the for-real housewife of Dallas, here’s an update on some of the most intriguing neighborhood stories and photos of 2019.

Story by LISA KRESL | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO Richie Whitt contributed to this report.

Twisted

THEN: The day after the tornado hit Oct. 20, Sara Miranda stood in front of her home on 7827 Midbury Drive. Windows and walls were missing. Miranda spent the day salvaging her belongings while construction workers did their best to clear debris. In the midst of the devastation, the mailman made his way through the fallen trees and trash to deliver an Amazon package. Miranda had ordered treats for her German shepherd, Cisco. It was a much-needed sign of normalcy.

NOW: “It’s not bad, and it’s not great,” Miranda says.

“I’m realistic.” She’s living in a rental home near St. Michael’s with Cisco, who weathered the tornado with her in a bathroom. Miranda’s home had leaks in every room except one, so she had to move out all of her furniture. She expects to be able to return to her home in about a year. “People are moving on with their lives unless their house was devastated.” She emphasizes how difficult it is to pick up glass, shingles and insulation from the yard. This was a good day, she says. She put on makeup. “For weeks, I had been wearing the same thing then going to the house and getting dirty. Today I’m taking my mom to the doctor’s and getting out.

Woo-hoo!”

The fiercest female of all

THEN: The George H. W. Bush documentary “41 on 41” features George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama — and Sarah Jackson, a 2011 graduate of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. After stints as a press secretary in the U.S. House of Representatives and a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Department of State, she began work for the Dallas Citizens Council in 2014. One of her goals was to visit every continent by the age of 40. She achieved that on New Year’s in Sydney, Australia.

NOW: Since our story, Jackson:

n Co-chaired the Texas Lyceum Meeting, focusing on “Are We Taking Our Democracy for Granted?”

n Served as Vice President of Policy Fellowships and led the presentation and policy brief of Texas Lyceum Fellow James McKenzie on voter turnout in Texas.

n Attended Bush-Cheney Alumni Reunion as a member of the Presidential Leadership Scholar Alumni Committee.

n Was appointed to the national board of directors for Power to Decide.

n Serves on three Dallas ISD boards and committees.

The for-real housewife of Dallas: Cary Deuber

THEN: Cary Deuber, of the “Real Housewives of Dallas,” showcased her remodeled home on Strait Lane in the April Advocate. Her $300,000 kitchen layout mimics Eleven Madison Park in New York City, a restaurant with three Michelin stars. The room’s centerpiece is a $75,000 Frenchmade blue Molteni stove. But Deuber called her padlocked closet, fashioned after the

Highland Park Fendi store, “my wonderland.”

NOW: Deuber shed the drama of RHOD by becoming a “friend” to the show instead of a regular cast member. She’s also uber buff from eating clean and committing to a consistent exercise routine. (Removing herself from the RHOD crazies probably doesn’t hurt, either.) “If I can, you can,” she wrote on Instagram. “My current fitness routine is pretty simple: Do yoga and [Barry’s Boot Camp], don’t eat ridiculously high calories, and #EmSculpt to boost your results!”

The teenage storyteller who humanizes borderlands

THEN: When we profiled Ekansh Tambe in May, the St. Mark’s School of Texas freshman had used his Nikon D5500 to photograph more than 8,000 images of conflicts on five borders across four continents. In addition to the U.S.-Mexico border, Tambe explored the border between North and South Korea, the borders of Israel and Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Gaza. He watched as Gaza militants fired rockets. He could see charred fields and a tank rolling in the distance, and he could hear gunfire. “My mom was sitting in the car when we heard that. She rolled down the window and said, ‘Get back in!’’’

NOW: Over the summer, Tambe explored Colombia and photographed its borders with Peru, on the Amazon River, and Venezuela. In addition to tackling his sophomore year at St. Mark’s, he spoke at STORY 2019, a national storytelling conference. In the spring, he will be a keynote speaker at the National Youth Leadership Conference and at an entrepreneurial conference in Sydney, Australia.

THEN: Cassie Evans Decker starred in our pets issue as foster mom to two cavalier king Charles rescues, Bucky and Rusty, and bunnies, Thumper Thumperton and Hoppy Hopperton, but we overlooked the true star of the family: Josie, the parrot.

NOW: Decker’s dad is an obstetrician/ gynecologist, and he accepted Josie as a form of payment on a hysterectomy in the early 1980s. Since Decker was born in 1981, she considers the parrot a sister. “I’ve grown up with her, and now she’s aunt to my daughter, Hattie Pearl,” Decker says. Josie prefers women over men, sings backup for “I Could Have Danced All Night” and can mimic a belly laugh. Since our story, the family has moved into a new home and added two members: guinea pigs Sophie and Snowbelle. “My daughter is such a loving little mommy to them.”

He’s a knockout

THEN: When we interviewed Derrick James in January, he trained boxers Errol Spence Jr. and Jermell Charlo, as well as celebrities Ross Perot Jr., Daryl Johnston and Clarice Tinsley. When not at Cooper Fitness Center, James spent 2019 nurturing his two champions at his new gym on the Trinity River. In 2009, James began coaching Spence. In 2019, the boxer became an undisputed champion, and his mentor flew to New York to be honored as the Boxing Writers Association of America’s “Trainer of the Year.”

NOW: James is again a finalist for BWAA “Trainer of the Year.” Spence beat Mikey Garcia in March at AT&T Stadium and Shawn Porter in Los Angeles in September to run his record to 26-0 and strengthen his grip on boxing’s welterweight title and his position as one of boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighters. But at 2:53 a.m. on Oct. 10, Spence’s white Ferrari 488 Spider crashed and flipped in a single-car accident just south of Downtown. The 29-year-old boxer, who wasn’t wearing a seat belt, was ejected but survived, suffering face lacerations. Spence spent six days in the hospital and was recently charged with DWI. He posted –then deleted – a post-accident Instagram that read: “No broken bones. I’m a savage!!”

‘My parrot, Josie, is my sister’

NorthPark’s piano man: Play ‘Star Wars’ for me

THEN: Brad Hanson is best known as the man behind the piano at NorthPark Center. Hanson took on every genre of music, including video game theme songs. He also composes his own music and mash-ups of songs. “I’ve met Ross Perot and gospel singer Kirk Franklin. I’ve played for actor Dennis Quaid, businessman Mark Cuban, former First Lady Laura Bush and several local news anchors and politicians. It’s electrifying and a little scary to play in front of celebrities, but above all else, it’s just cool.”

NOW: Hanson describes himself as a husband, dad, performer and instructor. “I love our incredible God and my amazing family. Music is a part of every area of my life,” he says. “I consider myself honored and blessed to be a part of Dallas' cultural scene, talking to and entertaining the people who walk through NorthPark and learning about and assisting the gifted musicians that are my students.” Hanson, who enjoys hiking with his family, appreciates the connections he makes through song. “I've played ‘Let It Go’ about 300 times.”

Art saves: Hook ’em horns

THEN: Leticia Rincon was a senior at W.T. White High School who described herself as a shy freshman. That is, until she discovered art. The youngest daughter of Mexican immigrants, Rincon’s paintings display elements of her heritage, whether it’s bright colors or religion. Beginning with her junior year, Rincon started winning awards. She won first in the Dallas Veterans Day Art Contest two years in a row. Her 24-by-36-inch self-portrait was showcased at the Dallas Contemporary as part of the youth art month exhibit.

NOW: Rincon completed her first semester at the University of Texas at Austin. She’s pursuing her career in advertising and hopes to enter Texas Creative. Rincon joined Diversity in Advertising and Public Relations, which expanded her knowledge of the insight she can bring to any workplace. “I’m very proud to have pushed through new experiences,” Rincon says. “My family remains my source of motivation — my everything.”

DESIGN

LIVING BEAUTIFULLY IN PRESTON HOLLOW

THE UPSIDE OF DOWNSIZING

STORY BY LISA KRESL | PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANNY FULGENCIO

Like a lot of women her age, Jody Clarke found herself alone in a big house after a divorce. She moved from a 3,200-square-foot home near Midway and Merrill to a 1,907-square-foot home in Sparkman Club.

“I wanted some thing I could fix up,” says Clarke, owner of Jodell Clarke Designs. “I’m an eclectic person. I like quirky and old things, things that tell stories. I grew up with antiques. My family didn’t have a lot of money, but I inherited a lot of furniture. I’ve just added to it over the years.”

Clarke bought her home in 2018 and finished renovating it in February. There’s very little original left in the house. “I think the disposal in the sink, the backyard fence and the garage door survived,” she says. “Everything else is new.”

T he home has three bedrooms, a family room, living room and dining room. Her favorite space is the family room, which boasts a skylight. The wall in the family room features a photo gallery of art, including two images of places she loves: Paris and Raveloos on the Amalfi coast of Italy. “After I was single, I had this dream of being in Paris on a romantic weekend with somebody handsome.”

The room highlights a piece called “The Atomic Ant Farm” that Clarke purchased from a Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) event. She served on the board and as president of that organization. The work of art is composed of an old microscope box, parts of a microscope and the original manual.

African mud cloth and baskets, American folk art, Italian tile from Deruta and art from Santa Fe and Mexico can be found throughout the house. Her dishes are a collection of antique English Ironstone. She is passionate about architectural prints. A sculpture in her hallway is a project she welded when she was in art school, collecting rusted car parts from the woods and manipulating them together.

Clarke wanted to be an interior designer when she was in high school, but a guidance counselor talked her out of it. She got her degree in art education, became an art teacher, worked in visual and store design, did product development and was a stylist and designer. At one point she worked at Fossil. Her 25-year-old daughter, K.C. Thompson, is a copywriter who graduated from Hockaday.

“I love working with what people have. Some designers strip a room and buy everything new,” she says. “But people have family things they’ve collected, and I like to work those in. I love helping people tell their stories.”

Her living room features expanded windows so that she can open the door to a front-yard verandah with table and chairs. She enjoys watching the neighbors while drinking coffee. “It’s private,” she says. “People walking their dogs don’t necessarily see me, but when they do, they wave and say ‘hi.’ It’s a friendly neighborhood. That’s one of the reasons I chose to live here.”

Clarke decorated the dining room as a library space. “This is the first time in my life I’ve ever been able to choose everything I wanted.”

Jody Clarke renovated a home and made it her own

“This is the first time in my life I’ve been able to choose everything that I wanted.”

PRESIDENTIAL STROKES

GEORGE W. BUSH’S OIL PAINTINGS HONORING VETERANS ARE NOW A BOOK AND TRAVELING ART EXHIBIT

SINCE THE END OF HIS PRESIDENCY, George W. Bush has pursued his passion for painting in his Preston Hollow home art studio, formerly his “man cave.”

Gail Norfleet was Bush’s first art instructor. “Gail, there’s a Rembrandt trapped in this body. Your job is to liberate him,” Bush recalled telling her, in the intro to the 2017 book about his hobby. Texas Christian University art professor Jim Woodson became his second teacher followed by Sedrick Huckaby, who is the one who suggested Bush paint people he knew but others didn’t. This inspired Bush to focus on the wounded warriors he had met during the W100K mountain bike rides and Warrior Open golf outings organized by the Bush Institute. He began creating the portraits of 98 veterans in 2015.

“Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors” (Crown Publishers, $35) is a collection of that work along with profiles of the soldiers. The book’s profits will

be donated to the George W. Bush Presidential Center and its Military Service Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps post-9/11 veterans and their families transition to civilian life.

A traveling art exhibit, which has the same title as the book, features 66 oil portraits, stories and a four-panel mural. The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., hosted the exhibit, on loan from the Ambassador and Mrs. George L. Argyros Collection of Presidential Art at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, Oct. 7-Nov. 15. It can be seen at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, through Jan. 20.

“I wanted to show their determination to recover, lack of self-pity, and desire to continue to serve in new ways as civilians,” Bush said in the introduction, admitting he’s a novice artist. “The greatest honor of the presidency was looking them in the eye and saluting them as their Commander in Chief,” he wrote. “And I intend to salute and support them for the rest of my life.”

Story by LISA KRESL | Images

W. BUSH

President George W. Bush: “I intend to salute and support them for the rest of my life.”

courtesy of GEORGE

WHO: Sergeant Leslie Zimmerman, U.S. Army, 2001-2004

MILITARY HISTORY: Served as a medic in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

POST SERVICE: Diagnosed with posttraumatic stress and depression.

BUSH: “Leslie sought counseling and medication, supplementing those treatments with mountain biking, long-distance running and coaching. She brought Laura and me a signed first edition of ‘Dream BIG!,’ the children’s book she recently wrote, to give to our granddaughters. I’ll be pleased if they come to count Leslie as a role model.”

WHO: Sergeant Daniel Casara, U.S. Army, 1994-2008

MILITARY HISTORY: In 2005, a mine flipped his M113 armored personnel carrier in Baghdad, crushing his legs. POST SERVICE: Relearned to walk after 24 surgeries. Casara was the first participant to compete in the Bush Institute’s golf tournament and mountain bike ride.

BUSH: “In 2014, Danny spoke in front of a large crowd at a dinner we were hosting during the Bush Institute’s Warrior Open. He had the entire audience captivated with his story and its lessons. He was so good, I nicknamed him The Preacher.”

WHO: Lance Corporal Timothy John Lang, U.S. Marine Corps, 2005-2010

MILITARY HISTORY: Injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2006. The bomb killed two of his fellow soldiers and wounded his best friend.

POST SERVICE: His right leg was amputated after nearly 50 surgeries. He suffered survivor’s guilt, traumatic brain injury and PTS.

BUSH: “Tim enjoys waking up for ‘an ungodly early tee time,’ watching the sun rise over the golf course, and reflecting on how happy he is to be alive. Tim says, ‘We all have battles to conquer in life.’”

WHO: Sergeant First Class Michael R. Rodriguez, U.S. Army, 1992-2013

MILITARY HISTORY: Deployed nine times over 21 years as a Special Forces Green Beret, including stints in Somalia, Haiti, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Bolivia and twice to Afghanistan.

P OST SERVICE: Severe PTS and traumatic brain injury resulted in his medical retirement from the Army. He began wearing dark sunglasses and later, blue-green prosthetic lenses to correct his double vision and light sensitivity.

BUSH: “Because the lenses are different colors, Rod made for a very interesting subject to paint. Rod finds peace in blacksmithing. Rod is very talented. Prince Harry and I are proud owners of beautiful daggers that Rod forged for us.” He also served on the Institute’s Military Service Initiative advisory board.

“I wanted to show their determination to recover, lack of self-pity, and desire to continue to serve in new ways as civilians.”

By MARIANA GREENE

Seeds of hope

How our community rallied to support a neighborhood jewel

When I drove to North Haven Gardens on Nov. 25, evidence of the October tornado’s devastation shocked me to tears. The row of large trees that had shaded the parking lot were gone. Where once I had looked at the blue sky through a scrim of pecan leaves there was only air. Destruction was all around me. All that remained of the 68-year-old nursery was the entrance and signboard. The rest was flattened.

I had seen television news footage and photos of damage on social media, but evidence of the tornado’s force in person overwhelmed me. I have shopped frequently at NHG for years. I took gardening friends there, I lunched there, attended classes there, presented classes, and purchased city chickens, Christmas trees and thousands of plants there for the garden beds surrounding my house, where I have lived for 35 years.

I know the property by heart. I could feel my way blindfolded to any department aisle or greenhouse. I’m on a firstname basis with employees; several are Facebook friends.

North Haven was founded in 1951 by Ralph and Muriel Pinkus, when Northhaven Road was undeveloped and before Central Expressway was constructed. Over the decades, well-to-do neighborhoods have been built to create what is collectively called Preston Hollow. For many of those homeowners, NHG is the default store for tulip bulbs in winter, geraniums and vegetable starts in spring, caladiums in summer and pansies in fall.

Clientele reaches beyond the immediate community, however. Passionate gardeners from Collin County and Oak Cliff make NHG a regular destination.

On the Monday after the tornado,

volunteers from area churches steered around debris on golf carts or walked the streets to hand out snacks and emotional support, NHG’s senior buyer Sandi Holmes-Schwedler told me. Once Jon Pinkus, the second-generation owner, declared to the media he would rebuild, hundreds of customers contacted the store via Facebook offering to help clear debris. Their offers had to be declined for insurance reasons, but many showed up anyway with cookies, hot coffee, lunch and other treats.

media that hundreds of people had the same idea, I backed out. Customers had to park four and five blocks away, there were not enough carts to carry merchandise, aisles were jammed and the wait to check out was more than an hour.

Some people were looking for a bargain, but most told the staff they wanted a keepsake from the tornado, a survivor.

I was not after a bargain or a souvenir. I wanted a bale of pine straw to mulch my tender perennials before the uncharacteristically early killing freeze. That is why I valued North Haven: It had plants, shrubs and supplies I often could not find elsewhere. Besides, plants always were in excellent shape, with lush foliage and flower buds.

The store is open again seven days a week while management meets with architects to get plans under way for rebuilding. Three weeks before Christmas only six evergreen trees remain for sale. In their place will be freshly constructed tables displaying colorful, cold-hardy annuals and vegetables and perennials that bloom in winter.

“It was incredible,” Holmes-Schwedler says. “It makes me tear up to think of it.”

Standing in the barren parking lot on Nov. 25, when North Haven reopened to sell live Christmas trees, I cried, too. In fact, every time I gave an employee a hug I cried. It is embarrassing, but I have always been a sentimental fool as well as a gardening fool.

It was important for me to be at the nursery when it reopened in makeshift plastic quarters. Many others had felt the same when the store held its two-day survivor sale of salvaged plants, garden supplies and bags of soil and mulch. I, too, had intended to go to the salvage sale on Nov. 8, but when word spread via social

Buyer Holmes-Schwedler will restock shrubs and perennials soon. She also casually noted a large order of hellebores, commonly called Christmas rose and Lenten rose after the dates they start blooming, respectively, is on its way from a Washington state grower.

In October I had intended to go to North Haven to buy hellebore replacements but the tornado spoiled that plan. Now we’re talking. Let the shopping resume.

Mariana Greene is the retired home and garden editor and garden columnist at The Dallas Morning News. She raises old roses and other heirloom flowers in her garden.

“Every time I gave an employee a hug I cried.

It is embarrassing, but I have always been a sentimental fool as well as a gardening fool.”

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